Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13
NEBRASkA.

Hsstiugs Is troubled with tu glars.
Lincoln's salt bore is down ., 200 feet.
Harlan county newspapers are clamoring
for a jail.
Ains~orth voted unanimously for $1,000
court house.
Charles Lanning, = nine-year old Is missing
from Beatrice.
Edgar's creamery is 3 SURE thing. The plant
Will cost a, 600.
The Hebron Journal has entered upon lis
seventeenth year.
Fullerton hopes to get the Burlington and
Missouri railroad.
Plattsnouth is about to have q visit from
the salvation army.
The Platte County Teachers institute is
mak!ng fine progress.
David City is promised a new bank by a
Washington capitalist.
Gov. Thayer attended the &. A. r. reunion
and campfire al Liberty.
The Sanders County Teachers institute has
$50 teachers In attendance.
The Fremont normal school and business
college has been sold tor "a, 0e0.
Tn receivers sale Of Chas. p. Msthewson's
realty At Norfolk brought ell, 900.
Some wheat eelds in northern Nebraska are
yielding twenty bushels to the acre.
The hay crop In some sections Of the state
will not fall short Of last years crop.
The alterations and additions 10 the Ne
braska City distiliery will cost $1,000.
The state fair managers at Lincoln are
making preparations for a grand affair.
Nelson Reeves, a colored man. is under ar
rest at Bartlett, charged with killing his W
infant child.
The Who'll, sale whisky dealers will help the
saloons Of Omaha fight the ordinance reeuir.
Ing them TO close at midnight.
The Robert Hawke will contest, rat Ne
bra'kA City, involyi e half q mil ion, will be
am'cably settl d. William Hawke accepts the
division Of the property, asking only for hts
share.
Articles OF Incorporation of the Bank of
Callaway were filed with the secretary OF
state Wednesday. The corporation is to CON
tinue twenty-five years, and the capital stock
is $50, Zoo.
Prof. Henry Upton, OF Pierce, died FRIDAY
night Of cancer If the stomach. Mr.. Upton
was one Of the wealthy and Influential citi.
gers { ( Pierce county and a brother Of the
Gen. Upton.
There is confined In the city jail at Lincoln
a morphine fend, who 1t appears cannot exist
a quantity Of that drug daily. He
In a day an amount that would or
kill a horse.
A bridge fund warrant, issued during de-
Treasurer Simpsons term, at Ne
braska City, registered and paid as the books
show, has turned up in the hands OF an In
Docept holder. The sm unt is only about
Zoo, but fears that others of larger amounts
are out In the same way.
The eleventh annual holiness state camp
was successfully inaugurated at B n
net Wednesday. Two services were held, fore
noon and afternoon, but the session was for
mally opened at night by President Miller,
Evangelist Bell preaching a short sermon. A
large number have arrived from all directors s,
mostly the north. Sixty-fye tents are already
up.
TIE project to connect Dakota City and
South Sioux City by steel railway has actually
commenced. The company nas a capital OF
s40, 1000. 1t Is expected to have the line in
from the river bank in C%ovlngton
to the south liue Of South Sioux City within
sixty days. The material has beer ordered by
tel graph. The intention Is to build the road
to Dakota City and possibly to Homer.
Warden Hyers, OF the state penitentiary,
Wednesdiy brought White Water, an old In
dian convict, IN to be examined by the pen
zion agents. White Water is an cid Indian
chef who is serving out q life sentence for
numbering a white man. During the war he
served Ia the union army, and draws Il pen
sion Of Is per month. He now makes appli-
cation for an increase.
A. Nebraska City, George Mauer, a tailor,
visited the Stats Zeitung Office Wednesday,
with the avowed purpose OF thrashiDg the
editor, Prof. Bluehdron. The ed or sas out,
but soon returned, when Mauer proceeded To
tt rash him. In a few minutes Mauer was
pulled out from under one Of the presses the
worst used up IN IN ic town. Bluehdorn has
q repu alton as a fighting editor, having S V.
eral years ago, while in Lincoln, made his
mark ia thai line, and but a few weeks ago
one OF the prominent lawyers of that
place about town for some improper re.
The mayor and county commissioners have
been inform of an alleged case OF horrible
brutality in Nebraska City, the victim being
an aged woman and the tormenters her
daughter and son-in-law. II the facts ALLEGED
are proven true the case is one of the most
q .ndish ever known Ia this state. The story,
as told to the officers, and which will be thor.
Investigated by them, is as follows:
years ago an old settler named Mark
BAurrer died, leaving some valuable property
there, which was to revert TO a son-in-law, Al
Buchanan, with the understanding
that the deceased's widow, an invalid, should
cared for during lifa. Soon after the old
mans death a system Of frndish cruelty, 1t is
said, was i~naugurated by the daughter and
son-in.law against the mother, $40 often suf-
fered for the commonest necessaries OF life,
and while still able 10 he about would be
forced by hunger TO beg from the %neighbors,
who supplied her with food, which she used
TO secrete about the house and eat after the
family had retired. Recently, as report says,
She has been confined 10 her bed, and neigh